Well? What DID you do 991231?

I was drunk, standing in a snow storm on the top of a small mountain, surrounded by darkness.

Earlier I had felt like the the ultimate edge of luserness was reached when I found myself sitting in an ugly house with four slackers drinking wine. I called my brother who were sober and made him promise to get me out of there before 10PM or I'd have done a very dramatic suicide in the livingroom.

Thank God we got to the mountain before twelwe, and crawled upwards. There were some people there already, and by midnight I popped open my champagne and hollered "Whaa! Welcome to the future!". A teenage girl sourly remarked "I though people got more mature by age!" which is kinda characteristic for the small-town mentality I so desperately escape and loath.

But never mind. We made a fire and poped crackers yelled a lot into the nothingness and I got very drunk and skidded on my belly all the way down the pitch-black track to the parking. Then I got severe hickups and fell asleep. I woke up on somebodys couch.

Miserable celebration. I'd rather have been in Paris. And for the rest of my life I'll remember that teen farmer bitch sneering at me when I was rejoycing the most.

(I ain't sour, I just like to groan )

So, what did you like the least with YOUR celebration? And don't tell me you liked it, or I'll have to punish you!

I bacame the pinacle of geekiness. I was fighting the damn motherboard and another system to work before the start of the millennium. I didn't give it until 5 min till midnight and I went back at 1....damn computers ruined all my plans...computers are evil.

Well, um I was sitting here, in front of my computer, also watching CNN on my TV next to the monitor. Uh, I chatted on IRC (it is quite fun wish happy new years 18+ times to people...try it some time!). Pretty much it!

I went to my friend's house, he had a bunch of fireworks he bought in Washington (for all people unfamiliar with Oregon, Oregon only allows fireworks that don't shoot into the air, and they must be a certain size. And they are only allowed to be sold around July 4th. Washington does not have these laws, so people go across the border and load up)

Anyway, me and a couple friends set off mortars and had fun endangering our lives. Take 4 boxes of sparklers sometimes, get every single sparkler, and tape them all together into one giant thick super-sparkler. WOW, it was bright. It lit up the entire street. It was brighter then a car headlight.

Anyway, pyrotechnics were the order of the day. I wanted to go downtown for Portland's huge new's years bash that supposedly rocked, but I have a broken arm and I probably would have been jostled down there.

Had a party at my apartment. We watched Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, ate pizza, got drunk, and shot fireworks. It was great! Good friends and good booze... plus I got a couple of smooches

I took my car to get washed, because the news said it would be like 50 all night long! Then at about 12:15, I go to leave, and the whole damned car is frozen solid, took me 45 minutes to heat up the lock enough to open the door!

ok i played DD (designated driver) all night, and as i played dd i through my back out, and couldn't drink even though the 20 other people there were to hammered to stand... gerr.. it sucked. yo ozguid you live in oregon.. me too.. portland? i live in eastern oregon small town which brings me to my next point, i feel your pain CAD, women (girls) etc, just don't understand that we never really get mature, just better at hiding our imature activities for when were getting drunk..

I just stayed home and watched thru the entire 26hours of CBC live report of countdowns around the globe...Definately the longest live show there had been. Damnit, I was so tired after that I thought my head's gonna fall off...

Imagine 5 people in a geo metro driving all around the countryside looking for a good party with a set of 12's booming and 2 30packs. I started drinking at 6 and we went to about 7 partys. (Hard to find a *good* party in the middle of nowhere.) Went to the local poolhall and my friend got his ass kicked at 12:00. but anyways we ended up at a party in a rodeo arena, and no chicks in sight I got high, talked to a bunch of redneck Texans and shot some craps. At 4:00 we headed home and I passed out sometime climbing the stairs at his house.

Overall It wasn't what I was exspecting (I wanted to get laid) but I acomplished 2 out of the 3 tasks that I was hoping for. (get drunk, high, and laid) but It was better than Last year (no offence Akula )

Smashed: Far all you know, you might have gotten laid. Were there any open condom packages or empty bottles of KY Jelly on the staircase where you passed out? Do you have all of your articles of clothing?

Yeah I did it last year too...I think I'm going to make it my New Years Lame Traditionâ„¢. It is sorta kinda cool...Was cool this year cus irc.webbernet.net split at the *exact* time the first islands were rolling over to 2000. Piece of shit server...gar!

My Brother and I went to the New Year's bash in protland. Sorry Ozguid, that you missed it, because it really did rock.We first were just going to go to a party here in Salem, but the host was sick, so instead we went to Portland.

CADdie, your amusing story was perfection compared to my New Year. I was awakened from a pneumonia-induced delirium by my SO in time to see the Ifel Tower exploding on tv. For a second I thought it was terrorists, but then realized I could discern a pattern in the explosions. We wished each other Happy New Year and I dragged myself upstairs to change drenched pajamas for the third time and collapsed on the bed.

Today was the first day I sort of felt like myself. I'm gonna think of something nice to do to make up for it.

BTW, I think one of the real good reasons for marriage is to keep people from their own worst judgments. If I hadn't been forced to go for antibiotics when I did, I might have bitten the big one this time.

Damn, but it would have been sweet to be in Paris to see that IRL. *grin* the French were obviously convinced that they could not let anyone out-do them in the way of New Year's spectacle... personally, I thought most of the others look kinda lame in comparison, at least on TV. I ended up wandering over to a rather good fireworks show that was put on by the resort I was staying at with my family, snapped ~100 shots on my newish digicam, wandered back in, messed around with the laptop (not mine) that I was using and got it all fixed up and cleaned out, spent a couple hours weeding through vacation pics, getting them back down to a more reasonable 120MB, then finding servers to store the excess pictures on that didn't have completely lame agreements (if you store here, we can do whatever we want with your files), wandered through the forum a couple times, realized it was 6 am, went to sleep, woke up 2 hours later to finish packing and left for the airport at 11. Sounds great, eh? Actually, the fireworks were pretty damn sweet, some of the better ones that I've seen live (watching fireworks from a hotel roof-top in Florence still sits at the top of my charts). Had some pretty good sparkling wine, although I don't remember exactly what it was (one of those silly California wines that tries to use a European name with an extra word or something added in, but was still rather good -- and I still refuse to call it champagne). Didn't get drunk... it takes a bit more than a couple glasses of champagne to do anything to me. Would have been nice to have someone (dare I say female) to celebrate with... not that I don't like my family, just not the same (bit of an understatement). Ah well, pretty much the past couple years ended up being wildly skew to my plans, hopefully this one turns out better. Heck, even perpendicular would be better. parallel is beyond hope.

On that note, I think I'm going to shut up and drag my sorry ass to bed.

Oh, what I was doing?!I had a bunch of guys and dolls over for dinner and some kick-ass music. 23:50 we ran out and stod on top of a mountain and watched all the fire-works.

Oh, and Hell yeah we have them "Yeah, You sooooo grown up, not...and I hate You"-shit-for-brains-kids too.

All we did was yell "Millenium, Millenium... Millenium, It's Millenium... Millenium".Don't know why, but we all felt a lot better after doing so.And if some of the ppl You "Dissaprove of" try to say somethin(back to You and Your posse), just yell :"Millenium, Millenium... Millenium, "Millenium, Millenium... Millenium"

Well since I knew at about 10am on the 31st that the Russians didn't lose any Nukes when the clock switched over there, I went out and got a Keg and hand a party at my house.

About 10 people came over and we had a good time playing cards and bullshitting and when it got close to time for the switch over I went down and watched my old P75 running Linux change over and all my other systems updated their time off of it.

Then I kissed my GF and we all climed onto the roof of my garage and shot off fireworks. I'm still amazed none of us fell off the roof in our drunken stupors.

And the next morning I woke up hung over as hell hehe.

JD

PS: We also spent Saturday and Sunday finishing off the keg.

Oh I also watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail after we came inside again.

Myself, my cousin and a few close friends went to the Primus/Long-Beach Dub All-Stars/Buckethead/Incubus concert up in Oakland. (East side of the Bay Area in California) It rocked muchly, and midnight went *off*. There were approx. 3 police cars for every actual car I saw on the road coming home, but traffic overall was surprisingly light, so no problems there, either. I ended the evening with some, shall we say, rewarding female time. And I didn't touch a computer all day. Geek? Bah!

Went to Toronto with some friends. The night was really lame up to 11:30 because my most of my friends wouldnt go into the clubs, and they wouldnt go to the fire work show. At 11:30 I got piss drunk told most of my friends to fuck off, grabbed a couple that like to party and hit the streets.

Younge st. (major north south st.) was packed with people coming from the fireworks, so it was a huge party. People everywhere yelling and shouting. Alot of hand slapping and kissing random girls went down.

Finally we somehow ended up on the wrong side of the city at like 3:30 and had to walk three miles back to the hotel. This was a blast. We were so drunk that we stopped to chill with every bum. Anytime we came across people the four of us would demand that they get in a group photo. It was general drunken stupidity, but a great time.

Sounds like I had one of the best New Years of all. I went to the parties in downtown Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. Plus we watched the around the world celebrations on a portable tv and saw the ball drop in NY City on MTV. We kicked it around clubs all over Sundance Square in Ft. Worth and Deep Ellum in Dallas. Everywhere we went we picked up someone new and by about 2am we had about 20 cars in our group. We got back to my friends place where everyone earlier had each pitched in a case of beer and had a mad party for the ages!!!! I woke up butt naked next to 2 girls(I have no idea where they came from, what they're names were, or what we did before sleeping) and proceeded to search for my clothes. About 40 people were still around Saturday afternoon so we ordered about 15 pizzas and had another party with the rest of the beer.

I can't wait until the "Real Millenium" when me and all my friends are gonna try to top this bitch of a party off by planning a sequel!!!

I was in the middle of a drunken orgy when I started killing everyone. I figured, what the heck, there will be looting and riots and all sorts of things to keep the police busy until I could hide the evidence, let's find out what all those serial killers are raving about. Imagine my surprise...

My family and a bunch of friends got about 15 rooms at the Marriott downtown (including the hospitality suite ). Various groups of people wandered the San Antonian festivities, but most everyone watched the New York countdown in the suite. Then we watched the San Antonio fireworks display from a deck right above the pool (4th floor). About 2am my brother & I discovered that, for some reason (Y2K?) all the in-room movies were free...

I was on the clock. I did absolutely nothing except be there just in case. I made more money for one 12-hour shift than I have ever made in one week in my life, because nobody wants to work at a casino on New Year's Eve.

Got off @0300, headed to my favorite nightspot (the one at which I work), and by 0430 was as wasted as any of you keggers. Jose Cuervo forever!

Ozguid and NoHandLuke: I was in the square in Portland myself. Good shit! Man, I've NEVER been that crowded into that many people before. I literally couldn't raise my arms more than a half-inch.

One of you want to start another Portland, Oregon thread so we can do a new head count? I think there's quite a lot of us in the area--we should have a Ars Out night and go get pissed somewhere (Paddy's downtown? Atwaters? The Rock Bottom?)